Pelletier’s employees work on commission, she said. They aren’t getting paid while the electricity is out.

“Both my master technicians, they’re the full providers for their families,” she said.

Pelletier is just one of the 22,000 customers in the Denver area still without power, according to Xcel Energy’s power outage map.

Crews left their staging area early Friday morning at Mile High Stadium to conduct the next round of repairs, Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said. As of 8 a.m. Friday, 94 percent of customers had gotten their power back, she said.

But with snapped poles and downed lines across the region, much work remains.

Harvey Park Recreation Center in southwest Denver is closed until further notice because it does not have electricity, the city’s Parks and Recreation Department tweeted Friday morning. It will remain closed until further notice. The Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center has electricity, but the boiler is broken. That means no hot water or showers in the building for at least the next day or two, the Parks department tweeted.

Drivers throughout the metro area on Friday also had to navigate tricky intersections where traffic lights blinked — or remained dead.

As of Friday at noon, approximately 30 lights were still out across Denver, Heather Burke, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman, said via email.

“We ask people to please be cautious approaching these intersections and to treat them as 4-way stops,” she wrote.

Sam Tabachnik is a breaking news reporter for The Denver Post. He previously wrote for NBC News, the Washington Post and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. A Boston native, he's not afraid to root for Tom Brady in the Mile High City.

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